The opening of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey features some kites, dragon kites of course, eventually going up in flames.

Larry

DWayne:
The Hobbits here are always flying some kind of kites. 8)

Denny

TBHinPhilly:
Interesting find from one of the Middle Earth forums.

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Red paper dragon kite......is obviously an allusion to the Russian animation film "Sokrovischa pod goroy" ("Treasures under the mountains") which was started in USSR in 1991; however, because of budget reasons, only the prologue sequence was finished, and the project was canceled in 1993.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQIrIGS17UE

The song in the Russian animated film sings about "what can a brave little paper dragon kite do against a real one?"

first the kite is featured at 2:25: http://www.youtube.com/...er_detailpage#t=145s

Then at 3:07, as it gets destroyed: http://www.youtube.com/...er_detailpage#t=186s

Still looking for a clear screen shot of the kites from the Hobbit movie.